Famu Guides

Step-by-step guides for every part of Famu — pick one from the list to get started.

Getting started

• What Famu can do
• Choose what your farm keeps
• Set up your pens and houses
• Add someone to the farm
• Turn on reminders
• What Famu warns you about
• Why Famu says you are running low

Every day

• Record the daily round
• Record deaths
• Record feeding and water
• Record eggs collected
• Write a health note
• Keep a task list

Poultry

• Start a new batch
• See how the birds are doing
• See what a batch made or lost
• Plan and record vaccinations
• Record a treatment
• Record sample weights
• What FCR means
• What mortality rate means

Cattle

• Add an animal to the herd
• Record milk
• Record an animal treatment
• Record breeding

Pigs

• Record a farrowing

Crops

• Start a planting
• Record a spray or fertiliser
• Keep an input library
• Record a harvest
• Manage your crop types

Money

• Record a sale
• Sell eggs by the tray
• See who still owes you
• Add a customer
• Record what you spent
• Record an expense paid in pieces
• Organise your expense categories
• Record something you built or bought to keep
• Look after a machine you bought
• Keep a cash box
• Record money in that is not a sale
• See whether the farm is making money
• Give your numbers to an accountant or a bank
• Track what is in the store
• Record a feed purchase
• Why Famu says the cash box is low

People

• Keep a worker record
• Record a payment to a worker
• Decide who can see what

Your farm

• Photograph a receipt instead of typing it
• Photograph a product label
• Bring in records you already keep in a spreadsheet
• Ask the assistant
• Ask about a sick bird or plant
• See who changed what
• Invite another farmer
• Change your farm details